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		<title>Mainframe Skills Shortage</title>
		<link>http://www.sysprog.net/2009/02/mainframe-skills-shortage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IBM has an Academic Initiative Program to address the mainframe skills shortage. Many companies that use mainframes are recruiting college students and are building internship programs to add to their mainframe workforce. Companies can reach college professors who teach mainframes, using the Academic Initiative Program. The professors can identify those students who are good to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mainframe Migrations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some mainframe customers are considering or are in the process of migration to open systems. They see a need to cut costs and be more agile by moving away from mainframes towards new trends like cloud computing and open systems. Mainframe migrations can happen in full or partial modes. Full mode refers to all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Iron Produces Solid MIPS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some folks look at mainframes as though they were dinosaurs. They may favour the newer open-source and distributed computing techniques and may opt for server virtualization to lower costs of doing IT business. But these folks overlook the fact that, open-source technologies are relatively new and are under development, when compared to solid mainframe technologies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you getting SOAP for the CICS?</title>
		<link>http://www.sysprog.net/2009/01/are-you-getting-soap-for-the-cics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many governmental organizations are under shrinking budgets with increasing pressure to deliver web services from existing mainframe installations. There are many third-party software solutions that can help these organizations in taking their mainframes and making them into web services. IBM have always been innovating the solid mainframe concept since its inception. Cobol has web services [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mainframes: A Good Bet in The Economic Recession</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mainframe computers can be a safe and good bet for IT spending in these times of economic recession. Mainframes can cut the TCO (total cost of ownership) significantly. The key performance metrics for mainframes usually give the best value for money spent by IT.
Mainframes have a reputation in security and resilience when it comes to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mainframe Catalogues: Are You Aware?</title>
		<link>http://www.sysprog.net/2009/01/mainframe-catalogues-are-you-aware/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>russell.smitheram</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may already know, on a Windows PC, everything goes through the registry. So, whenever you want to run an application the registry must be referenced. In very simple terms, this is exactly what a catalogue does under MVS or z/OS. All datasets are accessed through a catalogue.
Furthermore, there a two very big differences [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring The z/OS V1R7</title>
		<link>http://www.sysprog.net/2009/01/exploring-the-zos-v1r7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, the z/OS version 1, release 7 is upon us, but so what? Well, there are a lot of capabilities that can dramatically simplify and empower your business. This is especially the case if you are entering the daring, brave new world of on-demand business. If you’re looking for a solid virtualization technology the z/OS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staying Put On MVS</title>
		<link>http://www.sysprog.net/2009/01/staying-put-on-mvs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>russell.smitheram</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite IBM’s best efforts, the majority of customers still use older MVS mainframes for mission critical applications.
I’m assuming you have either an s/390, or a zseries mainframe in your infrastructure and it’s no wonder. They are the most accommodating systems available on the market today.  The s/309 and the zseries host a number of [...]]]></description>
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